Import Access Data Into Excel

Posted by on Sep 28, 2006 | 4 Comments

If you are new to Access or Excel, you may not know that you can import data from an Access database into Excel. The steps below describe a quick and easy way to accomplish this.

  1. Open the appropriate Excel workbook.
  2. From the Data menu, point to Import External Data, and then click the Import Data option.
  3. From the Select Data Source dialog box, click the New Source button.
  4. From the Data Connection Wizard dialog box, click ODBC DSN, and click Next.
  5. Click MS Access Database, and click Next.
  6. From the Select Database dialog box, locate the database file you want to import, and click OK.
  7. Click the name of the table containing the data you want to import, and click Next.
  8. Type a name and description, and click Finish.
  9. In the Select Data Source dialog box, click the data source you just created and click Open.
  10. In the Import Data dialog box, specify where you want to put the data, and then click OK.
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  • Chris

    After following your directions, I obtained the following error message:
    [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Record(s) cannot be read; no read permission on ‘PPG’

    PPG was the name I had assigned to it

  • Mayur

    I am trying to import data from Access into and have been able to import one table already. However, for the second table that I’m trying to import, I get only the header row, no other records. If I try to construct a pivot table, I get more information, but a pivot table won’t do in this case.

    Please advise.

  • Jkyzer247

    Thanks concise and right on the money